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Opposition lawmaker Eda exits Your Party

音声ダウンロード

Lower House lawmaker Kenji Eda on Dec. 9 deserted Your Party, which he helped form four years ago, and took more than a third of the opposition group's ranks with him to launch a new party.

Eda aims to set up a new party by year's end with fellow defectors and Mito Kakizawa, who left Your Party in August.

Eda said Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe's move to cozy up to LDP Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the contentious state secrets law was the biggest reason for him to bolt. (The Japan Times)

みんなの党分裂、江田氏新党結成の意

みんなの党の江田憲司前幹事長を含む国会議員14人が12月９日、浅尾慶一郎幹事長に離党届を提出した。江田氏は年内に新党結成を目指す考えを表明している。

The Japan Times ST: December 20, 2013